Episode #280 | 7.14.26
Happy Mondays: How Thieves, Drug Dealers, and Would-Be Kidnappers Took Over Madchester’s Music Scene
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In this episode
Explores the influential Madchester group's influence on UK culture and transgressive behavior involving the planned kidnappings of Donovan and the Smith's Johnny Marr.
Sources
Twisting My Melon: The Autobiography, by Shaun Ryder
Happy Mondays: Excess All Areas – A Biography, by Simon Spence
Shaun Ryder on highs, lows and Happy Mondays: ‘Heroin isn’t a party drug – you can’t just do it at the weekend’ (The Guardian)
The Rock’s Backpages Flashback: Happy Mondays in The Altered States of America (Yahoo)
The Ballad of Cowboy Dave: The Madchester scenester brutally murdered in cold blood (Dangerous Minds)
Pills, thrill and maracas … Bez and the great dancing mascots of pop explain their craft (The Guardian)
BEZ HAPPY MONDAYS - EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW (Iconic Underground)
24 Hour Party People: The Factory Records Saga (Channel 4)
Wrote For Luck: The Rise And Fall Of Happy Mondays (Clash Music)
Ex-Happy Mondays star Bez jailed for girlfriend attack (BBC)
The Oral History of Haçienda, One of History's Most Notorious Nightclubs (Vice)
"The festival spun out of control": when the Happy Mondays brought chaos to Glastonbury in 1990 (Louder)
Rowetta calls for witnesses of alleged 2000 attack by former Happy Mondays bandmate Shaun Ryder (DJ Mag)
Credits
Hosted by Jake Brennan.
Written by Zeth Lundy.
Copy edited by James Sullivan.
Mixed by Matt Beaudoin.
Produced in partnership with the Exactly Right Network and iHeartPodcasts.
DISGRACELAND theme song, “Crenshaw Space Boogie,” written and produced by Jake Brennan. Performed by Jake Brennan, Bryce Kanzer, Jay Cannava, and Evan Kenney. Mixed and engineered by Adam Taylor.
*illustrations by Avi Spivak @avispivak